Joy's Journal

"Edwin and Lucy's cottage consisted of two rooms downstairs, which had partly been knocked into one, with a modern bathroom tacked on at the back.  The stairs, which were hidden behind a latched door, led up to three rooms where one had to inch around the beds , bending one's head so as not to knock it on the eaves.  Laura Ashley wallpaper everywhere covered uneven old plaster, and rag rugs provided warmth underfoot.  Lucy's books were stacked in columns along one wall in the sitting room, having overflowed the bookcases, and in the kitchen there were wooden bowls, pestles and mortar, dried herbs hanging.

 

Lucy's home was unselfconscious, not folksy."

 

From Hot Money by Dick Francis